What is the surrogate key? what is the use of surrogate key? how to Create surrogate key Generator in scd2 in 8.5?

Answer Posted / karan am

surrogate key is alternate to primary key, in order to maintain historical data.

The key source can be a state file or a database sequence. If you are using a database sequence, the sequence must be created by the Surrogate Key stage. You cannot use a sequence previously created outside of DataStage.

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